need help with htacess rewrite rule

Hi,

I want to rewrite the following url:
http://www.mydomain.com/classifieds/index.php?newjersy

to

http://www.mydomain.com/newjersy/classifieds/

so that url that is visible to users will the second one but
it loads the page of the first url i specified.

Please help me.
Thanks in advance

 

http://www.mydomain.com/classifieds/index.php?newjersy is this correct url?

 

yes???? I did not get you

 

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^([a-z-A-Z-0-9-_]+)/classifieds/?$ classifieds/index.php?$1 [L]

sould work but i haven't tested it...

 

Thanks for reply.
Is there anyway I can write a single rewrite rule for all the pages in classifieds folder.
e.g
http://www.mydomain.com/abc/classifieds/showall.php
http://www.mydomain.com/abc/classifieds/search.php

Thanks